Ahvenamaa
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Estonian
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Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly from ahven (“perch”) + maa (“land”), the first term can possibly be derived from Proto-Norse ᚨᚺᚹᚨᛚᚨᚾᛞ (ahwaland, “water-land”). See Finnish Ahvenanmaa for further etymology.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ahvenamaa (genitive Ahvenamaa, partitive Ahvenamaad)
- Åland (an autonomous province of Finland; capital and largest city: Mariehamn)
- Ahvenamaale ― to Åland
- Ahvenamaal ― in Åland
- Ahvenamaalt ― from Åland
- Åland (an archipelago in the Baltic Sea, Finland)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of Ahvenamaa (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Ahvenamaa | — | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | Ahvenamaa | ||
| genitive | — | ||
| partitive | Ahvenamaad | — | |
| illative | Ahvenamaasse | — | |
| inessive | Ahvenamaas | — | |
| elative | Ahvenamaast | — | |
| allative | Ahvenamaale | — | |
| adessive | Ahvenamaal | — | |
| ablative | Ahvenamaalt | — | |
| translative | Ahvenamaaks | — | |
| terminative | Ahvenamaani | — | |
| essive | Ahvenamaana | — | |
| abessive | Ahvenamaata | — | |
| comitative | Ahvenamaaga | — | |
References
[edit]- Ahvenamaa in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “Ahvenamaa”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
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